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Empire of AI

By Karen Hao

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Empire of AI

By Karen Hao

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025 Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the Year A Financial Times Book of the Year 2025 Shortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Bestseller An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces. But the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that it requires an unprecedented amount of proprietary resources: the 'compute' power of scarce high-end chips, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans on the ground 'cleaning it up' for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the need for energy and water underlying everything. We have entered a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI setting a breakneck pace, as a small group of the most valuable companies in human history try to chase it down. In exhilarating prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Hao recounts the meteoric rise of OpenAI and shows us the sinister impact that this industry is having on society.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
496
Release Date:
2025-05-20
Publication Date:
2025-05-20
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241678927
ISBN13:
9780241678923
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
740 g
Height:
162 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
47 cm
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